Smoking accessories



Marc'h 1o, 1964 F. T. BARTOLOMEO 3,124,143

SMOKING ACCESSORIES Filed May 7, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 F|G.I

INVENTOR. Frank T. Bartolomeo Arp@- March 10 1964 F. T. BARTOLOMEO3,124,143

SMOKING ACCESSORIES Filed May 7. 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. FrankT. Barjolomeo wrm United States Patent Oiiice dllgld Patented Mar. l0,1964 3,124,143 SMKNG AQCESSRHES Frank 'lll Bartolomeo, 130 KirkwoodAve., Merrick, NX.;

.luiia A. Bartolomeo, exeeutrix of said Frank T. ilartoomeo, deceasedFiled May 7, 1957, Ser. No. 657,574 2 Claims. (Cl. 13l 253) Thisinvention relates generally to the class of tobacco and is directedparticularly to a smokers accessory.

In my pending applications Serial Nos. 592,312 and 599,843, nowabandoned, there have been disclosed and claimed certain improvements incigarettes* and like articles directed to the prevention of the smokerdrawing into his mouth and lungs harmful volatilized tars and othersubstances resulting from the tobacco. Another feature associated withthe improved constructions shown in the copending applications referredto is the provision of a means whereby the hot smoke and vapors will becooled somewhat before passing into the mouth of the smoker to not onlybring about a desired condensation of the volatilized substances butalso to generally add to the pleasure of smoking the cigarette.

In the disclosures of the several embodiments of the inventions in thecopending applications, the different constructions for the cigaretteare illustrated and described without reference to the manner in whichthe constructions shown and claimed are produced and it is an object ofthe present invention to provide an article which may be employed by thesmoker to produce the formations or constructions shown in the saidcopending applications in cigarettes as they are now marketed, thesecigarettes lacking the formation or formations shown in the copendingapplications.

The means by which the desired condensation of volatile products ofcombustion may be effected in a cigarette and whereby the pleasure ofsmoking the cigarette is augmented, consists of or is provided by anumber of air passageways formed obliquely in the body of the cigaretteand which passageways open through the outside or wrapper portion of thecigarette and converge toward the longitudinal axis of the cigarette. Incertain aspects of the invention, the passages are in crossed relationand not only open at one end through the wrapper of the cigarette but atthe other ends open through the end face of the butt end portion of thecigarette and, in all cases, such passageways are confined or restrictedto a small section or short portion of the butt end of the cigarette anddo not extend into the part of the cigarette which is conventionallyburned or smoked.

A further object, in the light of the foregoing, is to provide anaccessory to be carried by a smoker which will enable him to form suchair passageways in a cigarette not provided with such in itsmanufacture, and which article in a simplified form embodies a sleeve orjacket into which the butt end of the cigarette is inserted and whichhas a guide means to facilitate the extension of a sharp penetratingelement at the desired angle through the butt end of the cigarette.

Another object of the invention is to provide an article for producingdesired air passageways in and through the butt end of a cigarette whichis constructed in a novel manner whereby a movable portion of thearticle, when shifted in the proper direction after applying the articleto the cigarette, will automatically project penetrating elements intoand through the cigarette to form the desired air passageways.

A further object of the invention is to provide a smokers accessory foruse in the manner above described, which will not only functionefficiently for the accomplishinent of the desired result but which maybe economically produced.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of thefollowing detail description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawing forming part of the specification, with the understanding,however, that the invention is not confined to a strict conformity withthe showing of the drawing but may be changed or modified so long assuch changes or modifications mark no material departure from thesalient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

FiG. l is a View in longitudinal section through one embodiment of thepresent invention and through the butt end of a cigarette upon which theinvention is shown mounted and illustrating the manner in which apenetrating implement may be thrust through the cigarette for theformation of the desired air passage;

FlG. 2 is a transverse section taken substantially on the line 2 2 ofPEG. l;

FlG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through a second embodiment ofthe invention and through the butt end of a cigarette upon which it isshown mounted and illustrating in dotted outlines the position assumedby the passage-forming needles carried by a reciprocable sleeve forminga part of the article;

FG. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 4 4of FIG. 3;

PEG. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 55 of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a View in longitudinal section of a third embodiment of theinvention showing the same applied to the longitudinally sectioned buttend portion of a cigarette and illustrating a carrier for a singleneedle swung out toward a position of operation, there being shown indotted outline the forward end of the needle carrier and the needle inposition for use;

FG. 7 is a sectional detail taken substantially on the line 7 7 of FIG.6;

FlG. 8 is a longitudinal section through a fourth embodiment of theinvention showing the same mounted upon the longitudinally sectionedbutt end portion of a cigarette and showing the single needle carrier inclosed or retracted position; and

FIG. 9 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 99 of FIG. 8.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, reference will iirst behad to the form of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2.

The numeral l@ generally designates a sleeve or jacket having a bore orpassage l2 of a diameter to relatively snugly receive a cigarette. Thisbore diameter is of the proper size to receive the outside tip coveringor jacket where such may be present on the cigarette or it may obviouslyreadily receive an untipped form of cigarette.

The body of a cigarette is generally designated ld and and the numeralle designates a conventional wrapper while the numeral 1S designates thetobacco filling therein and in the illusurated cigarette, there is showna filter mouth piece or filter body 20 which may be of any charactersuch as the well-known cellulose type of filter or a filter made up ofmicaceous material or any other suitable filtering substance.

The numeral 2l designates a tip covering such as is frequently appliedto cigarettes but it will be understood that while such covering hasbeen here illustrated and has been illustrated in the succeedingfigures, the invention is in no respect limited to the type of cigaretteupon which it is to be used.

In the form of the invention thus far described, the sleeve or jacket10, which may be made of metal, plastic or any other suitable material,is provided with a number of obliquely directed guide openings 22 whichare equidistantly spaced circumferentially of the body. Any number ofthese openings may be provided but it is preferred that there be threeor four. These openings are located at the correct distance from the endof the jacket or sleeve toward which they are directed and at the properangle to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve so that when the sleeev isplaced on the butt end of the cigarette and the said end of the jacket,which may be referred to as the rear end and which is designated jitla,an air passageway may be formed which will lie partly in the tobaccobody and will extend entirely through the body of filter material 20 toopen through the end face 29a of the filter material.

In addition to the guide passages 22 located as described, there isprovided a second group of guide passages 23 which are disposed nearerto the rear end of the jacket and which are arranged to from a greateror wider angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the jacket thanthe passageways 22. These passages 23 are angled so that when the jacketis placed on the cigarette with the end a in the plane of the end face29a and a suitable penetrating instrument is extended through them, thedesired passage will be formed entirely in the body of the filtermaterial and will terminate within the filter body rather than extendingto and opening through the end face 2i). These passages 23 may be in anysuitable number.

The numeral 24 generally designates a penetrating implement which may beemployed for forming the desired passageways in and through thecigarette butt. This implement may be a steel or other suitable metal orit may be formed of plastic or any other material which will functionsatisfactorily and is, of course, pointed at one end as indicated at 25and in its use, as illustrated in FIG. 1, where it may be desired toform an air passage or a number of passages completely throught helength of the filter body and partly in the tobacco body, it is insertedinto a passage 22 after the sleeve has been properly located on thecigarette and pushed or forced inwardly and forwardly in the mannershown. The cigarette and the sleeve may then be turned to facilitate theextension of the penetrating implement through another passage 22 afterthe implement has been withdrawn from the first formed passage, as willbe obvious.

The passages 22 and 23 may be offset one from the other in thediametrical lines as shown in FIG. 2 so that they will merely cross orthey may be placed on the diametrical lines of the cigarette and thejacket so that the passages will intersect.

In the use of the passages 23, where the penetrating implement is soguided that it will not project through the end face 2da of the filterbody, the several passages can be formed to meet and join approximatelyon the longitudinal axis line of the cigarette within the filter body,as indicated by the dotted lines 26.

In the second embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4,the jacket is provided with or carries a sleeve which is adapted to beshifted longitudinally of the jacket to effect the desired formation ofpassageways through the body of the cigarette or through the filtermaterial. In this second embodiment, the jacket is generally designated27 and the cigarette with the filter tip of the same construction asthat described in connection with FIG. 1 is generally designated 28. Thefilter tip in this cigarette 28 is designated 29.

The reciprocable sleeve carried by the jacket 27 is designated 30 andthis sleeve carries in the forward end,

upon the inner side thereof, a key 31 which is adapted for slidingmovement in one of several needle slots 32 which are formed in andlongitudinally of the surface of the jacket 27 from the forward end 36aof the jacket through a substantial portion of the length thereof. Eachof these slots 32 terminates at its forward end in and communicates withan obiiquely directed needle guide passage 33. In this embodiment of theinvention there are preferably four of the slots 32 and, of course,there would be four of the needle guide passages 33 although there maybe more or less as desired and these needle guide passages 33 arelocated with respect to the rear end 30!) of the jacket at approximatelythe same position as the passages 23 formed in the jacket l0. With thepassages 33 so located, they will lie approximately at the inner end ofthe filter body 29 when the jacket is properly positioned on thecigarette, that is, with the end 30h in the plane of the end face of thecigarette and the filter so that the passages, when formed, will lieentirely within the filter body and open through the end face of thefilter body.

The sliding sleeve forms a needle carrier and each of the slots 32 haspositioned therein a needle 34 of suitable length and which needles areof a highly flexible material so that they may bend easily in the use ofthe device in the manner hereinafter described.

Each of the needles has a hinge end 35 through which passes a suitablepivot element 36 carried in and extending across the wall of the sleevein an obvious manner, the inner wall of the needle carrier sleeve beingprovided with a suitable recess 37 to receive the hinge end of eachneedle.

The opposite end of the needle which, of course, is pointed as indicatedat 38 is normally housed in or covered by the wall of the sleeve whenthe sleeve is in retracted position and in the use of the device whenthe sleeve is shifted or slid toward the rear end of the jacket, thepointed end 38 of each needle will ride into the associated guidepassage 33 and the needle will be fiexed so that it will be directedobliquely through the body of filter material in the manner illustratedin dotted lines.

FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate the third embodiment of the invention and inthese figures in which this embodiment is shown mounted upon acigarette, the cigarette is generally designated 39 and the filter bodyis designated 40.

Here, in this third embodiment, the jacket into which the butt end ofthe cigarette is inserted, is generally designated 41, the rear endbeing designated 41a.

The jacket 41 is provided with a number of circumferentially spacedneedle guide passages 42 which are disposed approximately the samedistance from the rear end 41a of the jacket as the passages 23 and 33hereinbefore referred to. Also these passages 42 are angledapproximately the same as the previously described passages referred toso that the penetrating element will pass into and through the majorportion of the length of the filter body.

On the jacket 41, there is positioned a needle carrier sleeve generallydesignated 43. This sleeve is located on the forward end portion of thejacket and is held against longitudinal or reciprocatory movementthereon but is permitted rotary motion or movement on the jacket. Anysuitable means may be employed for retaining the sleeve so that it maybe turned around the jacket but held against longitudinal movement as,for example, the surface of the jacket may be provided with acircumferential groove 44 and the sleeve may be provided with a screw orpin 4S extending through the wall thereof and having its inner endslidably engaged in the groove 44.

The sleeve 43 has formed at the outer surface or wall the longitudinalchannel 46 which, at its forward end, merges in a recess 47.

Adapted to lie in the channel 46 is a needle guide which is generallydesignated 48 and which is here shown as comprising a slotted tube 49which has at its forward end hinge ears 50 while lie in the recess 47and is retained in position by a pivot pin 51 which is extendedchordally gf and through the sleeve 43 as shown in dotted line in Theslot of the guide tube 49 is inside of the tube remote from the channel46 and such slot is designated 52 and at each end of the slot a suitablestop means is located thereacross for the purpose hereinafter set forth,the stop means at the slot ends being designated 53 and 54.

Within the guide tube is the passage forming needle or penetratingelement 55 which, as in previously described elements, has a pointedadvancing end and rearwardly directed end 56 and adjacent to the forwardend of the guide, the needle or penetrating element has fixed thereto abutton 57 which is connected with the needle by a reduced neck portion58 which lies in the slot.

In the use of the implement of the invention shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, thesleeve 43 is rotated to the proper position where upon extension of theneedle 55 rearwardly from the tubular guide, the point of the needle canenter a guide passage 42 and upon being further advanced from the guide,the needle can be forced into and obliquely through the body 40 offilter material as illustrated in dotted lines in FIG. 6. In thisfilter, the guide is shown infull lines partly swung out from thechannel 46 and in the dotted outline of the pivoted end of the guide, itis shown in the fully outswung position so that the needle can beextended directly into an adjacent guide passage.

In the second and third embodiments of the invention, the sleeveillustrated has been mounted on the jacket so that it may have apredetermined direction of movement on the jacket.

In the fourth embodiment of the invention as illustrated in FIGS. 8 and9, a sleeve is illustrated for supporting the needle carrier withrespect to the jacket but it is not movable relative to the jacket butother means is provided as hereinafter described for positioning theneedle where it can be extended into the cigarette.

In this last named embodiment, the cigarette is generally designated 59and the body of filter material in the butt end thereof is designated60.

The numeral 61 designates an elongate tubular jacket corresponding tothose hereinbefore described and having the open forward and rear ends61a and 61b respectively.

The numeral 62 designates one of a desired number of obliquely directedpiercing needle or pin guide openings which, as in the previouslydescribed embodiments, is at a predeterminately spaced distance from therear end 61h of the jacket so that when a filter cigarette is in thejacket, the piercing pin when projected through the guide opening willenter the cigarette preferably in the rear end portion of the filterbody.

Secured upon and encircling the jacket 61 between the forward end 61aand the guide opening 62 is the sleeve 63 which, in this case, is notmovable on the jacket. The rearward end of this sleeve is turned to areduced diameter through a portion of its length forming the endextension cuf 64 and the surface of this cuff has formed therein andtherearound the recess 65 in which is located for rotary movement aroundthe cuff the collar ring 66.

The outer side of the sleeve has formed therein a channel 67corresponding to the channel 46 of the third embodiment for receiving atubular piercing pin guide 68 of the same or similar form as the guide4S. Like the guide 4S, this guide 68 has the longitudinal Slot 69 in thewall thereof which is remote from the bottom of the channel 67 in whichthe guide is adapted to position, the forward and rear ends of the slothaving positioned thereacross the stops 76 and 71 respectively.

The rearwardly directed end of the piercing pin guide 68 extends fromthe channel 67 across the collar 66 and has a pivot ear or pivot ears 72which position adjacent to fixed ears 73 which are carried by the collar66. In the construction illustrated, there are two such ears 72 and twoears 73, and ears '72 are shown-between the ears 73 but it will bereadily apparent thatthis arrangement may be changed as may be desiredsolongas the required pivotal connection between the end of the guideand collar is effected and in the illustrated construction, this pivotalconnection between the ears is attained by means of a short pivot pin 74which, as shown in FIG. 9, passes transversely through the interleafedears.

The guide houses the elongate pointed and preferably flexible piercingpin 75, the pointed end 76 of which is at the rear end of the guide andthe opposite or nonpointed end of the pin has attached thereto by meansof a short neck 77, a manipulating button 78, the neck 77 lying in theslot and the button being outside the guide and extending over the slotas will be readily apparent particularly upon reference to FIG. 9.

It is believed that it will be readily apparent that in the use of theinvention in the form of the fourth embodiment, that the tubular guide66 is swung outwardly on the pivot 74 after rotating the collar 66 tothe proper position where the pin can be aligned with an opening 62 andwhen the proper angular position of the guide is obtained, the piercingpin may then be slid rearwardly from the guide so as to extend the pointof the pin through the opening and into the body of filter material 66to the desired extent. The angular disposition of the opening oropenings is such that the air passage formed by the pin can be extendedcompletely through the filter body t0 open through the rear end facethereof or the passage may be only formed part-way through and then byturning the collar to a position where the pin can be extended through asecond opening 62, another passage can be formed which will merge withthe first passage at approximately on the longitudinal center of thecigarette.

As hereinbefore stated, any number of guide openings may be formed in acircular series around any one of the illustrated jackets and also whilethere has been illustrated only in the first described embodiment twogroups of these circumferentially disposed openings, one of which groupsbeing at a different angle to the longitudinal axis of the jacket thanthe openings of the other group, the jackets of the second, third andfourth embodiments may be provided with openings corresponding to theopenings 22, if desired, and other necessary adjustments may be made inthe associated parts of the accessory to enable the user to form an airpassage or air passages through a part of the tobacco filling as well asthrough the body of filter material.

The accessory as disclosed in any one of the embodiments described maybe constructed of any desired or suitable material such as metal,plastic or the like, and the needles or piercing pins may also be formedof any suitable material and preferably should be resilient or ilexibleto a certain or necessary degree, particularly in the form of theinvention shown in FIG. 3 or the piercing pins must bend as they areforced into the guide openings 33.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that there is provided by thepresent invention, by its several embodiments, a novel article orsmokers accessory by means of which cigarettes or similar smokingarticles may be provided with air passageways which will not onlyimprove or greatly add to the pleasure of smoking but will materiallybenefit the smoker in that the resultant condensation of volatilizedtars and other substances will be prevented frorn passing into thesmokers mouth and into his lungs. It is believed that the extensiveinvestigations which have been made by medical investigators clearlyindicate undeniable harmful results are had 0r come about from smokingand that such harmful results are directly traceable to the absorptionin the mouth and through the lung tissues of harmful volatilized tarswhich are formed by the heat of combustion of the burning tobacco.Consequently, it` will be seen that by the use of a device such as thatshown here in any one of the different described embodiments, to formair passages in the cigarette at the butt end thereof which will bringabout a condensation of the volatilized harmful substances, materialbenefits to the health of the smoker will be obtained.

What is claimed is:

1. A srnokers accessory of the character and for the purpose statedcomprising a tubular jacket having a longitudinal axis of constantinside diameter throughout its length and adapted to snugly receive acigarette or like smoking article, the jacket having a Wall with anopening extending therethrough toward one end thereof and oblique to thelongitudinal axis of the jacket, the said opening being located at adistance spaced from the end of the jacket toward which its inner end isdirected whereby a pin, needle or like elongate pointed element may beextended therethrough into an end portion of a cigarette in the jackettoward and in close proximity to that end of the cigarette intended forplacement in the mouth of the smoker, there being a second openingthrough the jacket wall oblique to and forming a wider angle with saidaxis than the rst opening and located between a plane passing across thejacket through the first opening and the said end of the jacket.

3 2. The combination with a smokers accessory as dened by claim 1, of anelongate pointed penetrating article of a size to pass through said wallopening and of a length to extend at least to approximately thelongitudinal axis of the jacket.

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1. A SMOKER''S ACCESSORY OF THE CHARACTER AND FOR THE PURPOSE STATEDCOMPRISING A TUBULAR JACKET HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF CONSTANTINSIDE DIAMETER THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH AND ADAPTED TO SNUGLY RECEIVE ACIGARETTE OR LIKE SMOKING ARTICLE, THE JACKET HAVING A WALL WITH ANOPENING EXTENDING THERETHROUGH TOWARD ONE END THEREOF AND OBLIQUE TO THELONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE JACKET, THE SAID OPENING BEING LOCATED AT ADISTANCE SPACED FROM THE END OF THE JACKET TOWARD WHICH ITS INNER END ISDIRECTED WHEREBY A PIN, NEEDLE OR LIKE ELONGATE POINTED ELEMENT MAY BEEXTENDED THERETHROUGH INTO AN END PORTION OF A CIGARETTE IN THE JACKETTOWARD AND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THAT END OF THE CIGARETTE INTENDED FORPLACEMENT IN THE MOUTH OF THE SMOKER, THERE BEING A SECOND OPENINGTHROUGH THE JACKET WALL OBLIQUE TO AND FORMING A WIDER ANGLE WITH SAIDAXIS THAN THE FIRST OPENING AND LOCATED BETWEEN A PLANE PASSING ACROSSTHE JACKET THROUGH THE FIRST OPENING AND THE SAID END OF THE JACKET.